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

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

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

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Ralph, Blum

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Smiles, Samuel

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