Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Smiles, Sydney

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Swinnock

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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.

12.

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

Margaret Fuller

13.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

14.

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

Socrates

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Ball, Lucille

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

19.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

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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.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Back, Sudie

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

27.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

29.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

41.

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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who does not know one thing knows another