Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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)

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

Socrates

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

Coolidge, Calvin

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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.

10.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

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

16.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

17.

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

18.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

19.

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

20.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

21.

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

22.

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

Sterne, Laurence

23.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

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

Moliere

27.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Lao-tzu

29.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

30.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

40.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

42.

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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

44.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

45.

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

Robert, Cavett

46.

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

47.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

48.

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

Ralph, Blum

49.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

50.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine