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.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Ralph, Blum

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Van Horne, William

16.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Fink, David Harold

18.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

19.

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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Caine, Mark

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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

25.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

26.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

27.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

28.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

29.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

30.

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

Enrico Fermi

31.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

Sophocles

33.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

36.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

37.

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

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

Lao-tzu

39.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

40.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

41.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

45.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

46.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

47.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

49.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von