Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lao-Tzu

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Sophocles

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Einstein, Albert

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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 gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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 with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.