Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Saying

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

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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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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

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

32.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Starr, Lonny

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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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)

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

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes