Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bernard, Claude

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

10.

'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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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

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

17.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

19.

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

Proverb, Persian

20.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

22.

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

23.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

24.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Richard Feynman

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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

30.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

31.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

32.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

35.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

36.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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

40.

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''

41.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Epictetus

43.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

44.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

45.

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

Caine, Mark

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

49.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.