Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Morrison, Jim

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Benchley, Robert

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Ralph, Blum

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Proverb, Persian

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Whipple, Edwin P.