Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Caine, Mark

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Moliere

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Fuller, Thomas

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

11.

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

Sophocles

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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 is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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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

24.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

25.

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

Ralph, Blum

26.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

28.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

35.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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.

43.

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

Socrates

44.

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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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Kennedy, John F.

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