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

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

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

10.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

11.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

12.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

14.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Stevens, Ray

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Starr, Lonny

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

25.

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

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

Socrates

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

32.

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

Smiles, Sydney

33.

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

Socrates

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

Penn, William

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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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

42.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Confucius

44.

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

Margaret Fuller

45.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Epictetus