Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Man knows more than he understands.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Sophocles

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter 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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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

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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.

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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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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Richard Feynman

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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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita