Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fischer, Martin H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Richard Feynman

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

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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stevens, Ray

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Margaret Fuller

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Socrates

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.