Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Confucius

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Socrates

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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.