Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Persian

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Einstein, Albert

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Socrates

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Saying

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

Churchill, Winston

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

23.

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)

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bible

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

Bernard, Claude

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Richard Feynman

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''