Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

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

Van Horne, William

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

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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Degas, Edgar

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Pickering

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Epictetus

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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