Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Cowper, William

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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.

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Moliere

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Degas, Edgar

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod