Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

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

Socrates

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)

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

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

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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

Pickering

11.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

12.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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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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

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

18.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

28.

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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

38.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

39.

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

Billings, Josh

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Caine, Mark

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.