Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

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

Epictetus

11.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

21.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Socrates

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Comte, Auguste

31.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

35.

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

Bible

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

Haskins, Caryl

38.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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 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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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