Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Ralph, Blum

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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)

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

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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 know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ball, Lucille

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John