Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Penn, William

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Pickering

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon