Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ralph, Blum

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Swinnock

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

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Horne, William

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

Proverb, Persian

11.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

12.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Markham, Beryl

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Samuel Johnson

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar