Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Swinnock

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hall, Bishop

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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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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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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.

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Van Horne, William

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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

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

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Fuller, Thomas