Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Miller, Henry

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Enrico Fermi

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Penn, William

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

25.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

37.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

38.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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.

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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Samuel Johnson

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