Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Moliere

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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

Miller, Keith

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

Michener, James A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bernard, Claude

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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.

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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