Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Socrates

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

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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.