Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Smiles, Sydney

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Back, Sudie

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Confucius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pickering

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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

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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 little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, 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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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.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Franklin, Benjamin