Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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 our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

10.

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.

11.

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

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

12.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

13.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Swinnock

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

21.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

25.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Moliere

29.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

32.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

33.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

34.

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

Miller, Henry

35.

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 know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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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 degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

46.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

47.

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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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