Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Chinese

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

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

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

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

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Confucius

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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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

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

27.

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

Socrates

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

32.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

33.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh