Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pickering

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

12.

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

Back, Sudie

13.

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

Degas, Edgar

14.

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.

15.

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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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

18.

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

Penn, William

19.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

20.

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

Margaret Fuller

21.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

23.

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.

24.

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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

Stoppard, Tom

27.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Caine, Mark

34.

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

Miller, Henry

35.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

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

Comte, Auguste

41.

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

Saying

42.

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

Socrates

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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

44.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

45.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

46.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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