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 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

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

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

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Socrates

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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

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

Swinnock

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.