Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Addison, Joseph

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Degas, Edgar

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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

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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

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Socrates

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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'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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott