Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Brown, Francis Yeats

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Swinnock

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Adams, Franklin P.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

19.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

20.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

21.

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 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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Socrates

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

43.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

44.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad