Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sterne, Laurence

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Johnson, Samuel

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Bristol, Claude M.