Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Churchill, Winston

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Jung, Carl

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Margaret Fuller

10.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

11.

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

12.

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 the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

17.

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

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Van Horne, William

20.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

28.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

29.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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

34.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Epictetus

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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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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'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

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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