Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bernard, Claude

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Saying

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, 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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.