Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Moliere

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

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

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

Socrates

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

10.

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

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

15.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

Proverb, Persian

33.

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

Fink, David Harold

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Smiles, Sydney