Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Comte, Auguste

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Denham, Sir John

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Shakespeare, William

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lao-tzu

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

Van Horne, William

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Penn, William

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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''

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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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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis