Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bailey, Pearl

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

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

Bible

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

Back, Sudie

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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

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

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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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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 without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Moliere

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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