Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Lowell, James Russell

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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.

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

Starr, Lonny

10.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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

Bible

15.

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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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

17.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

18.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

23.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

24.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

25.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

30.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moliere

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

40.

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''

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

42.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

43.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Enrico Fermi