Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caine, Mark

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Moliere

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Traherne, Thomas

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

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

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Socrates

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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