Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

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

Denham, Sir John

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Mueller, Robert K.

11.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

13.

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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cowper, William

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

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

25.

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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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

31.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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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

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Stoppard, Tom

43.

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

Bible

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Ralph, Blum