Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

14.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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

17.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

18.

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

19.

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

24.

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

25.

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

Pickering

26.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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'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

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

34.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

37.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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 trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

44.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Socrates

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.