Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Socrates

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Starr, Lonny

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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 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

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Socrates

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Back, Sudie

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Addison, Joseph

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Confucius

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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