Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Hall, Bishop

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

10.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Smiles, Sydney

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

18.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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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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

27.

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

Robert, Cavett

28.

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

29.

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

Caine, Mark

30.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

31.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

32.

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

33.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

34.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Ball, Lucille

39.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

43.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

44.

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.

45.

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

Confucius

46.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

47.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

48.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.