Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Starr, Lonny

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Cowper, William

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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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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'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

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Swinnock

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

Degas, Edgar

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Richard Feynman

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Haskins, Caryl

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald