Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

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.

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

Bright, Grant M.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Shakespeare, William

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Comte, Auguste

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.