Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Saying

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Whitney, W. R.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

10.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

12.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Bible

15.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

18.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

19.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Back, Sudie

21.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

29.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Smiles, Samuel

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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.

34.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

43.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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