Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moliere

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Caine, Mark

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

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Benchley, Robert

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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