Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Miller, Henry

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Moliere

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

16.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Epictetus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

33.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

35.

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

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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