Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

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.

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.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lao-tzu

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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 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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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