Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

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

Socrates

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

10.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Churchill, Winston

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Epictetus

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Miller, Keith