Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Lao-tzu

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Caine, Mark

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Billings, Josh

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Starr, Lonny

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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

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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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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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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas