Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about 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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.