Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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 own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Penn, William

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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

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Smiles, Samuel