Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Saying

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Socrates

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Epictetus

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

Castaneda, Carlos

42.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Back, Sudie

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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