Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Keith

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Haskins, Caryl

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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'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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mill, John Stuart

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Billings, Josh

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

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

Socrates