Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Swinnock

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

14.

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

Saying

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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

16.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

17.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

20.

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

21.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

23.

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

24.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

25.

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

Confucius

26.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

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

29.

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

Mill, John Stuart

30.

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

31.

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

Moliere

32.

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.

33.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

34.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

35.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

36.

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

Manutius

37.

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

Sophocles

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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

39.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

40.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

43.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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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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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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