Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

11.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

14.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

15.

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

16.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

19.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Channing, William Ellery

24.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

25.

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.

26.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

28.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

30.

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

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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

32.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

33.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

34.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Bright, Grant M.

36.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

37.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

46.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

47.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

48.

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

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