Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

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

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

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Denham, Sir John

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Ralph, Blum

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

32.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bible

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Saying

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

Stoppard, Tom

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John