Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Epictetus

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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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