Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bible

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

Miller, Keith

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mueller, Robert K.

16.

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

Bible

17.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

18.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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 of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

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

Saying

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille