Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

10.

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.

11.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

16.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Channing, William Ellery

20.

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

Getty, J. Paul

21.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

22.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Margaret Fuller

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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.

33.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

34.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

44.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel