Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Haskins, Caryl

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

31.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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