Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Epictetus

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Stevens, Ray

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

10.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

12.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

13.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

14.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

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

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

17.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

18.

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

19.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

23.

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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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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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.

26.

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

27.

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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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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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

30.

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

31.

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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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

34.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

35.

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

38.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

42.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

45.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

46.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

47.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

48.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.

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

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)