Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

11.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

12.

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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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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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 who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Saying

17.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

20.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

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

25.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Swinnock

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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)

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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

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Stoppard, Tom