Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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.

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

Epictetus

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Churchill, Winston

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Margaret Fuller

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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 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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Fischer, Martin H.