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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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'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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Richard Feynman

24.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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 and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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