Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Shakespeare, William

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Bible

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Bernard, Claude

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Pickering

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

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

Moliere

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

45.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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