Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All knowledge is ambiguous.

- Habgood, J. S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Manutius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Mill, John Stuart

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.

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

Saying

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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

13.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

15.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

16.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

17.

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.

18.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

19.

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 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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

23.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Kuehler, Jack

25.

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.

26.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

27.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Lao-tzu

36.

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

Channing, William Ellery

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

43.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

45.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Benchley, Robert

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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