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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Addison, Joseph

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Back, Sudie

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Starr, Lonny

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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 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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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

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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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

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.