Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lao-tzu

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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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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

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

Margaret Fuller

12.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

31.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Epictetus

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Comte, Auguste

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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