Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Swinnock

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Einstein, Albert

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''

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stevens, Ray

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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Cowper, William

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Billings, Josh

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

Saying

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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.