Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Bible

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

Ball, Lucille

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Einstein, Albert

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kennedy, John F.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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.

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

33.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Lao-tzu

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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

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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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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

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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.