Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Socrates

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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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''

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Van Horne, William

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Moliere

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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