Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Moliere

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

Swinnock

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Einstein, Albert

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Milton, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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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

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Back, Sudie

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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.