Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Confucius

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

11.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

12.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Van Horne, William

14.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

15.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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.

17.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

18.

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

Kuehler, Jack

19.

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

Ralph, Blum

20.

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

21.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

22.

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

Lao-Tzu

23.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

27.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

31.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

34.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Epictetus

38.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Fink, David Harold

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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

43.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moliere

45.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

48.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Denham, Sir John