Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Saying

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Ralph, Blum

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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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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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Back, Sudie

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

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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