Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

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

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Persian

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Billings, Josh

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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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

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Kennedy, John F.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benchley, Robert