Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

- Starr, Lonny

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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 see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

16.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

20.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Socrates

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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

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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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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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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Lao-tzu

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

Socrates

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

30.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

31.

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

Socrates

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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)

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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 self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John