Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Morrison, Jim

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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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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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

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Moliere

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lao-tzu

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Epictetus

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

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

Van Horne, William

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

Proverb, Persian

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bible

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.