Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Churchill, Winston

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Saying

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Van Horne, William

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Back, Sudie

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Bible

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Bierce, Ambrose