Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bernard, Claude

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Getty, J. Paul

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Socrates

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)

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

11.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Proverb, Persian

19.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

22.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Bible

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

Bailey, Pearl

30.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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'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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

34.

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

Swinnock

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

40.

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

Epictetus

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Billings, Josh

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.