Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

- Carter, Angela

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bernard, Claude

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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.

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

Michener, James A.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

11.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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, 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

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

Proverb, Persian

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Bible

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Ralph, Blum

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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''

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Billings, Josh

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

Smiles, Sydney

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Carter, Angela

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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