Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

- Stewart, Rod

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Starr, Lonny

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Swinnock

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowper, William

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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