Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Penn, William

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lao-Tzu

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Lao-tzu

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Socrates

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.