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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Socrates

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Pickering

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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

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

Miller, Keith

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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

Morrison, Jim

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Benchley, Robert