Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mueller, Robert K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sterne, Laurence

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Confucius

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Confucius

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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