Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

- Proverb, Native American

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Michener, James A.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

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

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

10.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

11.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

12.

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

Saying

13.

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

14.

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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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)

19.

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

Van Horne, William

20.

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

21.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

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

28.

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

Pickering

29.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

30.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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

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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

33.

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

Everett, Douglas

34.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

35.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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)

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

40.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

42.

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

43.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

44.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

45.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

46.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Smiles, Samuel