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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Kennedy, John F.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas