Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

10.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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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

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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

15.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

21.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

22.

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.

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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

25.

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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Sterne, Laurence

28.

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

Moliere

29.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Moliere

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

35.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

36.

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

Kuehler, Jack

37.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

38.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Pickering

42.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

43.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Ralph, Blum