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

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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