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

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Einstein, Albert

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Michener, James A.

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Socrates

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

Miller, Keith

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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.