Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about 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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Lao-tzu

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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

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Van Horne, William

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Moliere

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is only potential power.