Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

'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

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

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

21.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

24.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Socrates

30.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Degas, Edgar

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

41.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Lao-tzu

49.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Socrates