Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Moliere

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

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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

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

Saying

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Miller, Keith

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

44.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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

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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.