Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Degas, Edgar

10.

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

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

16.

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.

17.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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.

19.

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

Back, Sudie

20.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Denham, Sir John

25.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Van Horne, William

30.

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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Michener, James A.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

35.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

40.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

43.

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

Ball, Lucille

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

46.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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 like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Bright, Grant M.