Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fischer, Martin H.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Swinnock

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

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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