Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Miller, Henry

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Swinnock

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

25.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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.