Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

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

Comte, Auguste

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Back, Sudie

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

10.

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

Proverb, Persian

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

15.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

16.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Mill, John Stuart

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

25.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

30.

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

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bergethon, R. K.

34.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Degas, Edgar

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

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

48.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von