Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Confucius

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Stevens, Ray

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

15.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Morrison, Jim

18.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

21.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

Back, Sudie

24.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

26.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

27.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

30.

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

31.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

33.

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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

36.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

40.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

43.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

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

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

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

48.

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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil