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

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

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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.

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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

Degas, Edgar

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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