Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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''

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

Socrates

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Pickering

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Swinnock

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Lao-tzu

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

33.

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

Penn, William

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

Socrates

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Miller, Henry