Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ralph, Blum

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Socrates

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Pickering

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Socrates

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Addison, Joseph

43.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony