Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Degas, Edgar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Lowell, James Russell

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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''

10.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

11.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Confucius

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

Lao-tzu

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Degas, Edgar

20.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

25.

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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

30.

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)

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

35.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Richard Feynman

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

44.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Hall, Bishop

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

49.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles