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

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Socrates

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Miller, Henry

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Enrico Fermi

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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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

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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 like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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