Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hall, Bishop

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bright, Grant M.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

13.

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

14.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

15.

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

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

Miller, Keith

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

Channing, William Ellery

19.

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.

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

25.

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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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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

28.

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

Confucius

29.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

30.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

34.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

39.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

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

46.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Moliere

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