Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Michener, James A.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Churchill, Winston

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

37.

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

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Mills, Darius Ogden