Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Epictetus

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ball, Lucille

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Billings, Josh

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

11.

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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Back, Sudie

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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 man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

28.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Pickering

34.

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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Markham, Beryl

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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

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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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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.