Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

- Gurdjieff, George

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Kempis, Thomas

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

10.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Starr, Lonny

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Epictetus

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.