Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Kennedy, John F.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Stevens, Ray

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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.

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

Swinnock

10.

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

Sophocles

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

12.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Epictetus

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord