Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

- Comte, Auguste

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

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

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Socrates

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

17.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Markham, Beryl

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Einstein, Albert

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Van Horne, William

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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