Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Cowper, William

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

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

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

Confucius

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Starr, Lonny

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter