Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Proverb, Chinese

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Starr, Lonny

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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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.)

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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 knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Lao-tzu

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.