Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Moliere

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

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

Caine, Mark

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Richard Feynman

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

10.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

20.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Margaret Fuller

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

33.

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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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

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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