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

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

Milton, John

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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)

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Kuehler, Jack

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

28.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lao-tzu

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George