Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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.

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

15.

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

16.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

18.

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

Back, Sudie

19.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Denham, Sir John

21.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

22.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

24.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

25.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Richard Feynman

27.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

28.

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.

29.

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

Caine, Mark

30.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

Margaret Fuller

33.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

35.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

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

39.

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

Miller, Henry

40.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

42.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

43.

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

44.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

45.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

46.

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

Bible

47.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

48.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

49.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

50.

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

Billings, Josh