Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Epictetus

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

Moliere

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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

Socrates

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Starr, Lonny

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig