Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

12.

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

Bernard, Claude

14.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

16.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Enrico Fermi

18.

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

19.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

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

21.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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

Lao-tzu

26.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

27.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

29.

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

Stoppard, Tom

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

Ball, Lucille

34.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

35.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

38.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

41.

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

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

44.

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

45.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Saying

47.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates