Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Moliere

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Saying

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

28.

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

Epictetus

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

38.

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

Richard Feynman

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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 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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.