Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Bristol, Claude M.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

10.

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

11.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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

15.

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

Haskins, Caryl

17.

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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Denham, Sir John

23.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

24.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

25.

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.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

34.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

38.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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