Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Johnson, Samuel

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

10.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

11.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Confucius

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stevens, Ray

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

22.

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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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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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.

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

30.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Denham, Sir John

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

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

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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.