Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

- Kuehler, Jack

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

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

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

Starr, Lonny

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Margaret Fuller

10.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

15.

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

16.

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

Pickering

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Cowper, William

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

Saying

23.

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

Whitney, W. R.

24.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

25.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

26.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

27.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Miller, Henry

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

Miller, Keith

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

33.

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

34.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

35.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

40.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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)

42.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

47.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.