Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Morrison, Jim

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Starr, Lonny

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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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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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

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-tzu

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

Saying

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

46.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bernard, Claude

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas