Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Richard Feynman

Best Quotes about Knowledge

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Billings, Josh

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Franklin, Benjamin

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Szasz, Thomas

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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.