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, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Johnson, Samuel