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

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Haskins, Caryl

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Socrates

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

19.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

24.

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

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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

30.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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

32.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Sophocles

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Cowper, William

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.