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

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

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bernard, Claude

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Sterne, Laurence

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Epictetus

15.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

16.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

18.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

19.

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

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

26.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

33.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

34.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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