Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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''

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

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Back, Sudie

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epictetus

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

31.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Cowper, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.