Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- 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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Proverb, Persian

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Benchley, Robert

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Moliere

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

Kempis, Thomas

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Epictetus

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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