Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

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

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Starr, Lonny

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Pickering

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Swinnock

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

Caine, Mark

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Epictetus

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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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

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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