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

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

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

Caine, Mark

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Epictetus

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Lao-tzu

10.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

11.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

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

Back, Sudie

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

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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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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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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Miller, Keith

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel