Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Traherne, Thomas

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

11.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.