Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sophocles

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

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

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

12.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Penn, William

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

18.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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.

20.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Back, Sudie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

27.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Caine, Mark

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

Cowper, William

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Epictetus

40.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

44.

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.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Channing, William Ellery

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.