Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Van Horne, William

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Penn, William

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

10.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Miller, Henry

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Swinnock

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

Margaret Fuller

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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