Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ralph, Blum

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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.

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Markham, Beryl

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

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.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

15.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

24.

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

Starr, Lonny

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kuehler, Jack

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

37.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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