Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

'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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Chinese

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Van Horne, William

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

12.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

15.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Moliere

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Sophocles

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Channing, William Ellery

31.

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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Lao-Tzu

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

45.

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 succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

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