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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Billings, Josh

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

Miller, Henry

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

Socrates

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

Epictetus

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

Richard Feynman

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Carter, Angela

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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.

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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