Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Michener, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Moliere

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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

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

Epictetus

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

30.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Richard Feynman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Socrates

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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