Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robert, Cavett

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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.

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

10.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

11.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Pickering

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Benchley, Robert

17.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

19.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Margaret Fuller

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Miller, Keith

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Lao-tzu

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

36.

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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Moliere

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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