Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- Van Horne, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Epictetus

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb, Persian

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'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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Hall, Bishop

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Morrison, Jim

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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