Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Caine, Mark

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

15.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

16.

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

Stevens, Ray

17.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

Swinnock

19.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

20.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

24.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

25.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

27.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

28.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

30.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

31.

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

32.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

33.

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

Degas, Edgar

34.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

35.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

36.

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

37.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

38.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

39.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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

42.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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