Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

- Ball, Ivern

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

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

Degas, Edgar

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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 greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Pickering

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

43.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Starr, Lonny

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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