Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-tzu

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

Moliere

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

10.

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

Mill, John Stuart

11.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

12.

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

Penn, William

13.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

14.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

15.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

16.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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

20.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

23.

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

Proverb, Persian

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

26.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

27.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

29.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Van Horne, William

33.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

34.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Pickering

37.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

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

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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

42.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

43.

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

Samuel Johnson

44.

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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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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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 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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

49.

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

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

Moliere