Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Markham, Beryl

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Billings, Josh

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Manutius

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Socrates

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

Stevens, Ray

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Miller, Keith

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lao-Tzu

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.