Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Proverb, Persian

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Van Horne, William

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Swinnock