Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Henry

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

'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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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)

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Socrates

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Swinnock

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Penn, William

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]