Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Henry

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Moliere

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Lao-Tzu

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Moliere

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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