Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

- Degas, Edgar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Robert, Cavett

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ralph, Blum

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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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bernard, Claude

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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)

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Keith

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

34.

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

Cowper, William

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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

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

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

Moliere

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

Whitney, W. R.

39.

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

Epictetus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Socrates

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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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