Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Shakespeare, William

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

11.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Socrates

15.

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 is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

17.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Ralph, Blum

24.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

25.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

26.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Persian

30.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

31.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

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

33.

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

Starr, Lonny

34.

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

35.

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

Caine, Mark

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

38.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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

40.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

41.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

42.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

43.

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

44.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

45.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge is power.