Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Bible

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Benchley, Robert

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

10.

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

Ralph, Blum

11.

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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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 seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

21.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

24.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Comte, Auguste

27.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

28.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

29.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

41.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sophocles

45.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

46.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

47.

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

48.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

49.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese