Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

- Charron, Pierre

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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 human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Saying

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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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Pickering

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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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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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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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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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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.