Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Richard Feynman

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Billings, Josh

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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Mill, John Stuart

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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 others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Socrates

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Moliere

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

Epictetus