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 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

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Enrico Fermi

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)

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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

Margaret Fuller

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Socrates

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lao-tzu

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Miller, Henry

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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 fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Pickering