Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

- Catton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robert, Cavett

'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

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

Richard Feynman

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''

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Socrates

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Margaret Fuller

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pickering

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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