Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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

Hall, Bishop

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

Billings, Josh

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Shakespeare, William

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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