Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Proverb, Chinese

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Benchley, Robert

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Sophocles

15.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bright, Grant M.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

Richard Feynman

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moliere

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Addison, Joseph

50.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John