Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Socrates

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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 without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Cowper, William

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

25.

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

Bible

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Ralph, Blum

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von