Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Van Horne, William

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lao-tzu

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Margaret Fuller

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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 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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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Socrates

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Caine, Mark

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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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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.