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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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 proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

10.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Socrates

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

28.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.