Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

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.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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.

Arundale, George S.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

22.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

23.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

24.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Billings, Josh

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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 tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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.

Benjamin, Walter

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.