Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Ralph, Blum

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 can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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

Van Horne, William

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Bible

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman