Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Szasz, Thomas

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

10.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

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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.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

21.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Keith

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Ralph, Blum

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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

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

Confucius

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker