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

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Socrates

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mill, John Stuart

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Pickering

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

Van Horne, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

14.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Miller, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

20.

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

Richard Feynman

21.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Bible

24.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

26.

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

Fink, David Harold

27.

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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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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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)

31.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

32.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

33.

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.

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

46.

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

Moliere

47.

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

Ralph, Blum

48.

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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.