Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richard Feynman

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Swinnock

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Fink, David Harold

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Pickering

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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.