Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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.

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

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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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Socrates

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

35.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cowper, William

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.