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

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Swinnock

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

'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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Socrates

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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