Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

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

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Pickering

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

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

Back, Sudie

29.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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

33.

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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

35.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

42.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

43.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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