Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Denham, Sir John

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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''

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Persian

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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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

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Lao-Tzu

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Eckhart, Meister

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.