Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Socrates

11.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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

27.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

28.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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