Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fischer, Martin H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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

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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

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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)

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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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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.

35.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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.

42.

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Socrates

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Stoppard, Tom