Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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.

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

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Confucius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Bible

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Manutius

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald