Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Shakespeare, William

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Epictetus

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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

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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 fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

Twain, Mark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.