Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Markham, Beryl

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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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

11.

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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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

14.

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

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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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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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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 what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

25.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

29.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

32.

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

Enrico Fermi

33.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

34.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

42.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

43.

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

Proverb, Persian

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

47.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.