Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cowper, William

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Stevens, Ray

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Saying

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Traherne, Thomas

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

18.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

20.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

23.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

26.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

28.

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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Sophocles

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

Epictetus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

40.

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

Margaret Fuller

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David