Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Manutius

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

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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

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Socrates

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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''

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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

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Johnson, Samuel