Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Caine, Mark

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

10.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

15.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

19.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

23.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Milton, John

29.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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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

32.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

35.

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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

Miller, Keith

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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

40.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Benchley, Robert

43.

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

44.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

45.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Ralph, Blum

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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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