Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Denham, Sir John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Socrates

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Shakespeare, William

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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

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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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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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Moliere

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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