Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Miller, Keith

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Cowper, William

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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Billings, Josh

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

48.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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I wish I knew what I know now before.