Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Richard Feynman

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Addison, Joseph

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

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

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ralph, Blum

28.

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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

30.

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

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Socrates

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Comte, Auguste

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David