Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Pickering

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Addison, Joseph

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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.

17.

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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Back, Sudie

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Churchill, Winston

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

31.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

33.

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

Socrates

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Fischer, Martin H.

44.

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

Bible

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von