Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Einstein, Albert

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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)

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

Sterne, Laurence

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Comte, Auguste

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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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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Bernard, Claude

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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

29.

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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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Back, Sudie

46.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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