Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ralph, Blum

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bailey, Pearl

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

10.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Bible

31.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

32.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

33.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Sophocles

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Milton, John