Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Van Horne, William

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''

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

Back, Sudie

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

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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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

11.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

12.

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

Fink, David Harold

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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 without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Epictetus

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Starr, Lonny

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Socrates

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Saying

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

Stoppard, Tom

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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