Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

11.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

13.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

20.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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)

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

Swinnock

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Socrates

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

Bradley, Francis H.

30.

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

Ball, Lucille

31.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Margaret Fuller

35.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

36.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

37.

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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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

42.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

44.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

46.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Back, Sudie

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon