Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

- Arundale, George S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Stoppard, Tom

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Back, Sudie

11.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

12.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

16.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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, 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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Moliere

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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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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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.