Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sophocles

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

Billings, Josh

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bible

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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 tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Traherne, Thomas

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moliere

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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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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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas