Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

- Denham, Sir John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cowper, William

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

Moliere

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

15.

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

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

Saying

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

26.

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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Swinnock

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt