Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Morrison, Jim

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

'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

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

Robert, Cavett

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Moliere

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Socrates

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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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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 most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Miller, Keith

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel