Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

14.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

15.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

20.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Socrates

29.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Moliere

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John