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

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Moliere

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Caine, Mark

10.

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

11.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

12.

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)

13.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Richard Feynman

17.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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.

19.

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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

22.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

23.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

24.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

25.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

26.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

27.

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

Stoppard, Tom

28.

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

Back, Sudie

29.

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

Whitney, W. R.

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

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

Degas, Edgar

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Benchley, Robert

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

44.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

46.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Moliere