Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Fischer, Martin H.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

10.

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

11.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

12.

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.

13.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

17.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

18.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Whitney, W. R.

26.

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)

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

29.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

30.

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

31.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

34.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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

Caine, Mark

38.

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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