Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

- Smiles, Sydney

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

44.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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.