Quotes about knowledge

"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."

Vaneigem, Raoul on knowledge   

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on knowledge
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"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 on knowledge
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"Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known."

Whipple, Edwin P. on knowledge   

"In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal."

Whitney, W. R. on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on knowledge   

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."

Young, Brigham on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"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. on knowledge   

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

Bailey, Pearl on knowledge   

"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. on knowledge
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"He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding."

Benjamin, Walter on knowledge   

"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."

Billings, Josh on knowledge   

"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on knowledge   

"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."

Bradley, Francis H. on knowledge   

"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. on knowledge   

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

Bristol, Claude M. on knowledge   

"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. on knowledge
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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 on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"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 on knowledge   

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

Eckhart, Meister on knowledge   

"It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."

Eliot, George on knowledge   

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

Fink, David Harold on knowledge   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge
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"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge   

"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."

Gurdjieff, George on knowledge   

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

Hopkins, Tom on knowledge   

"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."

Jung, Carl on knowledge
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"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."

Kafka, Franz on knowledge   

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

Kempis, Thomas on knowledge   

"He knows the universe and does not know himself."

La Fontaine, Jean De on knowledge   

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

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Pope, Alexander on knowledge