Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Caine, Mark

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Bierce, Ambrose

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bible

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Socrates

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.