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

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

Moliere

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

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

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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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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

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

16.

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

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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Lippmann, Walter

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Degas, Edgar

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney