Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Szasz, Thomas

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Traherne, Thomas

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Richard Feynman

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Swinnock

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sterne, Laurence