Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Miller, Henry

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Szasz, Thomas

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Pickering

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

31.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

37.

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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Comte, Auguste

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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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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

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