Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Epictetus

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Van Horne, William

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Persian

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Coolidge, Calvin