Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Moliere

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Socrates

21.

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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

32.

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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

39.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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''

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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