Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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)

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Socrates

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

48.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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.