Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Back, Sudie

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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'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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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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Degas, Edgar

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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