Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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)

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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

Epictetus

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Ball, Lucille

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Miller, Keith

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sterne, Laurence

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Lao-tzu

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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