Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Degas, Edgar

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

10.

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

Margaret Fuller

11.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Van Horne, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bible

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bernard, Claude

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Caine, Mark

38.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

39.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

40.

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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'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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

47.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is power.