Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Epictetus

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Back, Sudie

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

Haskins, Caryl

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Margaret Fuller

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Saying

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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