Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Socrates

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Comte, Auguste

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Pickering

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Sterne, Laurence

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Moliere

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

Manutius

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.