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.

— Raoul Vaneigem

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

— John Archibald Wheeler

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

— Edwin P. Whipple

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

— W. R. Whitney

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

— Elie Wiesel

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Brigham Young

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.

— Mao Zedong

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.

— George S. Arundale

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

— Pearl Bailey

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.

— Bernard M. Baruch

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.

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

— Francis H. Bradley

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.

— Claude M. Bristol

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

— Claude M. Bristol

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

— Pearl S. Buck

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.

— Albert Camus

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.

— Elias Canetti

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.

— Bruce Catton

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.

— Pierre Charron

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.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.

— Meister Eckhart

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.

— George Eliot

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

— David Harold Fink

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

— George Gurdjieff

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

— Tom Hopkins

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.

— Carl Jung

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Thomas Kempis

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Lao-Tzu

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

— Walter Lippmann

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.

— Sidney Madwed

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

— Katherine Mansfield

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

— Beryl Markham

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.

— Abraham H. Maslow

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

— Alexander Pope

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.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Blum Ralph

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.

— Mary Caroline Richards

Our lives teach us who we are.

— Salman Rushdie

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

— Mark Rutherford

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

— Seneca

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

— Sydney Smiles

Know thyself.

— Socrates

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

— St. Teresa of Avila

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

— Henry David Thoreau

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.

— Henry David Thoreau

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.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Thomas Traherne

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

— Source Unknown

I know myself, but that is all.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Know one, know all.

— Katha Upanishad

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

— Source Unknown

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates

Nobody can know what knowledge really is without truth.

— Sorin Cerin

knowledge makes your mind easy and your path straight

— Tadj Abelkader

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

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

— John C. Calhoun

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Carole Lewis Ph.E

Knowledge is the provocative masterstroke of purpose

— Mokgehle William wisbar

I am not young enough to know everything.

— J. M. Barrie