Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

- Stevens, Ray

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Drucker, Peter F.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

11.

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.

12.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

13.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

14.

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

15.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Szasz, Thomas

18.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

23.

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

Back, Sudie

24.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

25.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

28.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

34.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

35.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

39.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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. 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

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

44.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

45.

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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradley, Francis H.