Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Richard Feynman

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

Sterne, Laurence

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Lao-tzu

10.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

14.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

16.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Confucius

20.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Caine, Mark

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

30.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

34.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

40.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

47.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

48.

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

Penn, William

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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