Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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 despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Morrison, Jim

11.

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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Swinnock

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

27.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

30.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

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

Moliere

32.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

34.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

37.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

42.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Epictetus

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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.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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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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

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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