Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Billings, Josh

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Margaret Fuller

10.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

12.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

13.

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

Ralph, Blum

14.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

15.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

16.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

17.

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.

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

21.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Enrico Fermi

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

31.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

35.

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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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

37.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

39.

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

Bible

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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 have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Socrates

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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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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

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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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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.

48.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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