Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

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

10.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Bernard, Claude

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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

13.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

14.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

15.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

25.

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

Socrates

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

32.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

33.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

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

37.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

39.

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

Pickering

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

50.

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

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