Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bailey, Pearl

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

13.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

14.

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

Socrates

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

Cowper, William

18.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

19.

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

Mill, John Stuart

22.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

24.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

28.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

30.

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

Ralph, Blum

32.

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

Epictetus

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen