Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Penn, William

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Confucius

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

Socrates

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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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, 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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Van Horne, William

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

Miller, Keith

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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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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 me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

43.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Epictetus

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.