Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Van Horne, William

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

Richard Feynman

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Miller, Henry

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

10.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

12.

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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

16.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

17.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mueller, Robert K.

26.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

27.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

30.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

31.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Coolidge, Calvin

33.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

34.

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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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

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

39.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

40.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

41.

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

Miller, Keith

42.

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

43.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Lao-tzu