Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Back, Sudie

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Socrates

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Shakespeare, William

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Swinnock

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.