Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

10.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

11.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

12.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

15.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

23.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

32.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

33.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

34.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

37.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

42.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.