Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Socrates

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Back, Sudie

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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.

34.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Einstein, Albert

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Billings, Josh