Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

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

Bernard, Claude

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Haskins, Caryl

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Socrates

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Lao-tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Cowper, William