Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Socrates

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Swinnock

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb