Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Socrates

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

11.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Billings, Josh

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

22.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

23.

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

Cowper, William

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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

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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.

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Lao-tzu

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Whitney, W. R.

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister