Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Van Horne, William

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Traherne, Thomas

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

10.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

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

Starr, Lonny

12.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

15.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

18.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

19.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

21.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

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

Bernard, Claude

25.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

26.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

28.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

31.

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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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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

38.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Smiles, Samuel

40.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin