Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

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.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stoppard, Tom

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Moliere

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-tzu

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Benchley, Robert

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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