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

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Markham, Beryl

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Diderot, Denis

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

23.

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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Comte, Auguste

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

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

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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 trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Confucius

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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