Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Castaneda, Carlos

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Persian

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Szasz, Thomas

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles