Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Epictetus

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moliere

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

19.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Moliere

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

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

Lao-tzu

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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 small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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