Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Hall, Bishop

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Pickering

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

Michener, James A.

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

Enrico Fermi

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Billings, Josh

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

Benchley, Robert

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Margaret Fuller

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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