Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Smiles, Sydney

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Persian

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Moliere

12.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

13.

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

Smiles, Sydney

14.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

16.

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

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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.

18.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Stevens, Ray

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

24.

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

Szasz, Thomas

25.

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

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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

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

30.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

40.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

42.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

43.

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

Ball, Lucille

44.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Confucius

48.

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

Margaret Fuller

49.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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