Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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 is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.