Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

- Cudworth, Ralph J.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

15.

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

16.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

17.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Moliere

24.

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

25.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

26.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

27.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

Sterne, Laurence

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ralph, Blum

33.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

34.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

35.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

36.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

37.

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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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

39.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

40.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

41.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

Stoppard, Tom

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

49.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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.