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

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

11.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bernard, Claude

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

15.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

28.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

29.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Confucius

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

41.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

43.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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.

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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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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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

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