Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bergethon, R. K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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.

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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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.

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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Robert, Cavett

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Pickering

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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 tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Epictetus

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

Franklin, Benjamin