Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robert, Cavett

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Traherne, Thomas

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Socrates

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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.