Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-tzu

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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

Van Horne, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

31.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Epictetus

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Moliere

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