Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

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

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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''

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

Moliere

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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 end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Socrates

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

25.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Moliere

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Michener, James A.

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