Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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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

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

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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''

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

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

Miller, Keith