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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pickering

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.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

13.

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

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

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Richard Feynman

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

Ball, Lucille

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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