Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ralph, Blum

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robbins, Anthony

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Milton, John

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Epictetus

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

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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 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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

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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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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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

Socrates

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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 is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Hall, Bishop