Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

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

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)

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

Szasz, Thomas

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Margaret Fuller

18.

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

Proverb, Persian

19.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

21.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

22.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

24.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

28.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

29.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

30.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Billings, Josh

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

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