Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Back, Sudie

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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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

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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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