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

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Fuller

10.

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

Kuehler, Jack

11.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Saying

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Van Horne, William

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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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

33.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

35.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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

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

Bible

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin