Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Moliere

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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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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Margaret Fuller

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Caine, Mark

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

Epictetus

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Van Horne, William

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Fischer, Martin H.