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

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

Kennedy, John F.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Moliere

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Lao-Tzu

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Cowper, William

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

38.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Robbins, Anthony

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