Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

- Bergethon, R. K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Starr, Lonny

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

21.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

25.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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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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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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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

31.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Miller, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.