Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Moliere

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

Starr, Lonny

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Bible

11.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

12.

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

Markham, Beryl

13.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

14.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

15.

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.

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

18.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

19.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

20.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

21.

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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sterne, Laurence

26.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

27.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

28.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

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

Socrates

31.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

32.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

33.

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

34.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

35.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

36.

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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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

40.

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

Everett, Douglas

41.

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

Miller, Henry

42.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

43.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

44.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

45.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all