Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Miller, Keith

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Billings, Josh

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.