Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

11.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Epictetus

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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

18.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

19.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

32.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Pickering

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

40.

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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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.

46.

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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin