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

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.

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

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Moliere

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

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

Back, Sudie

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying

16.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Sophocles

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

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

Richard Feynman

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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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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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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.