Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Moliere

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

10.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

11.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

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

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ralph, Blum

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Confucius

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.