Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Margaret Fuller

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.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

11.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Richard Feynman

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Saying

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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''

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-tzu

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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