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

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Smiles, Sydney

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bible

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

Socrates

10.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

12.

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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Pickering

28.

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

29.

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

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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.

41.

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

Socrates

42.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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