Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Epictetus

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Sophocles

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ralph, Blum

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.