Knowledge Quotes

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Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge."-Serena Jade

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.

Martin R. Lemieux

Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man did not refuse to look into a telescope and discovered other planets, the freedom that comes from those who tried relentlessly when all others said it was impossible. It is in this freedom that deviance has its roots.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

Ankala V Subbarao

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I am because my little dog knows me.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Katherine Mansfield

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Charlotte Bunch

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

Boethius

Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

Katherine Graham

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

No one can figure out your worth but you.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Philip James Bailey

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Diogenes

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Olive Schreiner

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

God wastes nothing.

Jan Karon

To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Phyllis McGinley

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

Rosie O'Donnell

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Olive Schreiner

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!

Meg Ryan

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Jean Lush

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Your thorns are the best part of you.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Marilyn Vos Savant

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