Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Michener, James A.

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

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

18.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

19.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

20.

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

Stoppard, Tom

21.

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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Hall, Bishop

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

28.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

30.

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

31.

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

Szasz, Thomas

32.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

33.

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

Starr, Lonny

34.

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

Comte, Auguste

35.

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

Ralph, Blum

36.

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

Proverb, Persian

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sophocles

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

42.

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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

44.

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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

46.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Milton, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord