Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Moliere

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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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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Bernard, Claude

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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

Socrates

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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