Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

- Comte, Auguste

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Addison, Joseph

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mansfield, Katherine

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Mill, John Stuart

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying

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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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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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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Socrates

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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All men by nature desire knowledge.