Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

- Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bailey, Pearl

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Mill, John Stuart

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lao-Tzu

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

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