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

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lao-tzu

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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.

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

10.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Pickering

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Benjamin Disraeli

29.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

30.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

31.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

40.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.