Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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 good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Persian

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

11.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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.

24.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

25.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

27.

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.

28.

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

Pickering

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Starr, Lonny

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

32.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

40.

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

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Epictetus

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred