Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Billings, Josh

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Kuehler, Jack

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

10.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

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

Swinnock

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Fischer, Martin H.

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Ralph, Blum

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

22.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

23.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

24.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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

27.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

28.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

30.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

33.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

36.

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

Epictetus

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

44.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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 are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

49.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Chesterfield, Lord