Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

'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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Richard Feynman

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence