Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

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

Lao-tzu

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.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

10.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Ralph, Blum

14.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

21.

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

Smiles, Sydney

22.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

26.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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

28.

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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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

34.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Penn, William

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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.

Glasgow, Ellen

41.

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

42.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Socrates

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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

49.

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 seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)