Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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.

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

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Caine, Mark

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Miller, Keith

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Saying

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.