Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

10.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bible

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Sophocles

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Fink, David Harold

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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 knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bailey, Pearl