Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Everett, Douglas

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

10.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

18.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

21.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Mueller, Robert K.

29.

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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Socrates

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Moliere

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

42.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle