Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fischer, Martin H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

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

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Everett, Douglas

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.