Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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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

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Markham, Beryl

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Confucius

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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

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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

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Moliere

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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