Quotes about knowledge




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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on knowledge    Share


"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on knowledge    Share

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on knowledge    Share

"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 on knowledge    Share

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."

Madwed, Sidney on knowledge    Share

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."

Mansfield, Katherine on knowledge
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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 on knowledge
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"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."

Pope, Alexander on knowledge    Share

"'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 on knowledge    Share

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

Ralph, Blum on knowledge    Share

"It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold."

Richards, Mary Caroline on knowledge    Share

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Rushdie, Salman on knowledge
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"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."

Rutherford, Mark on knowledge    Share

"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."

Seneca on knowledge    Share

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

Smiles, Sydney on knowledge    Share

"Know thyself."

Socrates on knowledge
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"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. on knowledge
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"Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge    Share

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"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge    Share

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

Traherne, Thomas on knowledge    Share

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

Unknown, Source on knowledge    Share

"I know myself, but that is all."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on knowledge    Share

"Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself."

Unknown, Source on knowledge    Share

"Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman."

Unknown, Source on knowledge    Share

"Know one, know all."

Upanishad, Katha on knowledge    Share

"You don't know how much you know until you know how much you don't know."

Unknown on knowledge
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge    Share

"Nobody can know what knowledge really is without truth."

Sorin Cerin on knowledge    Share

"knowledge makes your mind easy and your path straight"

Tadj Abelkader on knowledge    Share

"If you go into an auditorium filled with racist people , you don't have a problem. They have a problem because they're worried about where you are going to sit. They are afraid you're going to sit next to them. But you can sit anywhere you want."

Sonya Carson on knowledge    Share

"You can't use tools you don't have."

Calhoun, John C. on knowledge
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"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on knowledge    Share

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on knowledge    Share

"To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."

Stojanovic, Dejan on knowledge    Share

" Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on knowledge    Share

"Before you know something, you don't know it."

Carole Lewis Ph.E on knowledge    Share

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