Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

- Comte, Auguste

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Socrates

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Saying

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Pickering

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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