Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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

10.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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 tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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.

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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.

28.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Richard Feynman

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

31.

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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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.