Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Chinese

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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

Bernard, Claude

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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 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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

37.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Degas, Edgar

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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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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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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

42.

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

Epictetus

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Lao-tzu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert