Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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)

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Degas, Edgar

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Penn, William

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

32.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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