Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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)

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sophocles

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Moliere

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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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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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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

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

35.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ralph, Blum

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He who does not know one thing knows another