Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kuehler, Jack

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Moliere

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

Fink, David Harold

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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.

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

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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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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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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'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

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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