Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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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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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)

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

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

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shakespeare, William

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Epictetus

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

Denham, Sir John

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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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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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

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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.