Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

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)

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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.

11.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

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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

17.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

24.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

25.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

26.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

28.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

32.

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

Van Horne, William

33.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

34.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

36.

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

37.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Miller, Henry

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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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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

47.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.