Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Van Horne, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

12.

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

Socrates

13.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

14.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

15.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

16.

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

17.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

20.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

24.

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

Back, Sudie

25.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

26.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

28.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

31.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

Channing, William Ellery

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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.

35.

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

Confucius

38.

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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

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

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milton, John

49.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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