Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Shakespeare, William

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

15.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

16.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

17.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Socrates

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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

23.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

25.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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

30.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

32.

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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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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