Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

- Stevens, Ray

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

11.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Stoppard, Tom

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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 is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich