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Knowledge

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Morrison, Jim

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Epictetus

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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

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

Bible

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Enrico Fermi

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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

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

Pickering

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George