Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Moliere

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Moliere

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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.

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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'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

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Fink, David Harold

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Sophocles

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Richard Feynman

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

Kennedy, John F.

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter