Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mueller, Robert K.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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

Van Horne, William

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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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Moliere

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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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.

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Socrates

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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.

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar