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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Addison, Joseph

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

10.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Benjamin Disraeli

15.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

16.

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.

17.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

21.

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

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

24.

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

Moliere

25.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Milton, John

28.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

30.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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'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

32.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

33.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

39.

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

Pickering

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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

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

42.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

44.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.