Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

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

Lao-Tzu

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Saying

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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

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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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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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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

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

31.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

34.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

35.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

43.

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

44.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

45.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mansfield, Katherine