Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Kuehler, Jack

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

10.

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

Bernard, Claude

11.

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

12.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Sophocles

20.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

21.

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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

31.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

32.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

33.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Saying

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo