Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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

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

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lao-tzu

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

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

Penn, William

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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

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cowper, William

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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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao