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

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

Saying

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

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

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

Markham, Beryl

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 fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Swinnock

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Stoppard, Tom

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Socrates

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.