Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Samuel Johnson

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fink, David Harold

10.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Van Horne, William

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

Bible

48.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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