Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Michener, James A.

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

Ralph, Blum

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Socrates

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Pickering

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bernard, Claude