Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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.

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.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Richard Feynman

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Cowper, William

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Degas, Edgar

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.