Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Van Horne, William

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

Degas, Edgar

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Lao-tzu

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

11.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

12.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

18.

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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

20.

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

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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

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Richard Feynman

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Saying

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum