Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Socrates

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Saying

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

Socrates

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.