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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ralph, Blum

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

19.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sophocles

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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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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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.

29.

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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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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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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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

40.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.