Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Epictetus

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Socrates

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

25.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

26.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Moliere

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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.

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

45.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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