Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Markham, Beryl

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Margaret Fuller

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Sophocles

10.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

36.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence