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

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

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

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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Richard Feynman

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

Everett, Douglas

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

10.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

11.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

15.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

16.

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

Bernard, Claude

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Markham, Beryl

22.

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

23.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

26.

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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

28.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

29.

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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

32.

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

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

36.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lowell, James Russell

42.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

43.

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

Smiles, Sydney

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

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

Ralph, Blum

48.

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

49.

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

Miller, Keith