Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

- Stewart, Rod

Best Quotes about Knowledge

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Moliere

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates