Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Markham, Beryl

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)

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

11.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

12.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

14.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

15.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

16.

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

Saying

18.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

19.

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

20.

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

Kuehler, Jack

21.

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

Lao-tzu

22.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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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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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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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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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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.

30.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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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.

35.

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

36.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

41.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson