Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Stevens, Ray

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Johnson, Samuel

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bernard, Claude

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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

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

Bible

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Billings, Josh

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

Epictetus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Miller, Keith

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere