Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

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

Enrico Fermi

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

10.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

13.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Swinnock

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Traherne, Thomas

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Epictetus

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

34.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

40.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Confucius

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar