Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Pickering

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Confucius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

11.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Epictetus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Henry

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Stoppard, Tom

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur