Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Lao-Tzu

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Epictetus

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Van Horne, William

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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

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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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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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

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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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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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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Proverb, Spanish

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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