Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

Margaret Fuller

16.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

19.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

20.

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

Stoppard, Tom

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

29.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

30.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

38.

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

39.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

41.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

42.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

43.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

44.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

45.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

47.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

48.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

49.

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

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