Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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.

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

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

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Ralph, Blum

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Kuehler, Jack

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Swinnock

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Moliere

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.