Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Socrates

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

11.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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.