Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

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

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Miller, Henry

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

Back, Sudie

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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 wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant 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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Socrates

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Starr, Lonny

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moliere

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles