Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

- Starr, Lonny

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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.

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Saying

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.