Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Billings, Josh

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Everett, Douglas

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

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

11.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Persian

28.

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

Robert, Cavett

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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

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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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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