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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Lao-tzu

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Markham, Beryl

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Starr, Lonny

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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Confucius

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

28.

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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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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

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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.

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

Degas, Edgar

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Socrates

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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