Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

30.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

31.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Enrico Fermi

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Back, Sudie

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

49.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John