Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

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)

11.

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.

12.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

13.

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

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

Morrison, Jim

15.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

16.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

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

18.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

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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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

25.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Manutius

28.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Margaret Fuller

31.

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

Ralph, Blum

32.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

33.

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.

34.

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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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

36.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

39.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

40.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

41.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Proverb, Persian

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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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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''

47.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

48.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

49.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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