Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Starr, Lonny

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Stevens, Ray

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Epictetus

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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 is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Miller, Keith

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

43.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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