Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

- Abbott, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Fink, David Harold

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sophocles

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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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