Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mueller, Robert K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Moliere

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

Traherne, Thomas

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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 know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''