Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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

Swinnock

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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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

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Socrates

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

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find 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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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.