Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Comte, Auguste

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Van Horne, William

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

10.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

11.

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

Epictetus

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lao-Tzu

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

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

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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''

22.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Miller, Keith

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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 trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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 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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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