Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

- Denham, Sir John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lowell, James Russell

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

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

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

Bible

'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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Bernard, Claude

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Bible

24.

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

Ralph, Blum

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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 man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Stoppard, Tom

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Gibran, Kahlil