Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Ball, Lucille

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

'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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Shakespeare, William

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Michener, James A.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bible

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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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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Whitney, W. R.