Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Pickering

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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

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

Bible

19.

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

Proverb, Persian

20.

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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

32.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

34.

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

37.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Szasz, Thomas

39.

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

Van Horne, William

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

43.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Starr, Lonny

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