Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Traherne, Thomas

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Shakespeare, William

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Samuel Johnson

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Caine, Mark

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.