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

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

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.

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

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Caine, Mark

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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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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.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cowper, William

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Socrates

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Socrates

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

Saying

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

Moliere

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

Sophocles

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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

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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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

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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