Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Margaret Fuller

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

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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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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Lao-tzu

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

Moliere

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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

Epictetus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Miller, Henry

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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.

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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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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