Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Szasz, Thomas

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Whitney, W. R.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Morrison, Jim

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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 is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 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

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Pickering