Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Van Horne, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Haskins, Caryl

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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

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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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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre