Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Moliere

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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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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 succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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

28.

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

Cowper, William

29.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Sophocles

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato