Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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 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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Saying

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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