Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Proverb, Persian

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swinnock

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moliere

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Saying

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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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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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Moliere

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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Benjamin Disraeli