Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Back, Sudie

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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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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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Billings, Josh

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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.