Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

- Whitney, W. R.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Socrates

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

12.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

14.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Miller, Keith

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

Confucius

23.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

42.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.