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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Socrates

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.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Moliere

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Enrico Fermi

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Epictetus

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Saying

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De