Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

- Whitney, W. R.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lao-tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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 like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

21.

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Miller, Keith

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

Bible

27.

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

Epictetus

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

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

29.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

31.

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

Sophocles

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, 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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell