Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kuehler, Jack

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

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

Socrates

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

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Epictetus

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

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Epictetus

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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 is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Traherne, Thomas

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Van Horne, William

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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