Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Morrison, Jim

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

10.

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

11.

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

Markham, Beryl

12.

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

13.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

14.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

15.

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

16.

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

Caine, Mark

17.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

18.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Cowper, William

21.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

24.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

30.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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.

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

37.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

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

Ball, Lucille

41.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

42.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

43.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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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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

46.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

48.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

49.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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