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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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

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

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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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

34.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

35.

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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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