Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Swinnock

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

10.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

11.

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

Mill, John Stuart

12.

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

13.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

14.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

16.

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

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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.

21.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

24.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

25.

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

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

29.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

30.

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

Bernard, Claude

31.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

33.

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

Comte, Auguste

34.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

Richard Feynman

39.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

44.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

45.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

46.

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

Proverb, Persian

47.

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

Degas, Edgar

48.

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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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

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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