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

Saying

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hall, Bishop

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sophocles

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Fuller

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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