Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

- Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sophocles

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Van Horne, William

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Socrates

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

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