Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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 knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Socrates

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Churchill, Winston

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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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