Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

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

Socrates

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Fink, David Harold

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Pickering

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

18.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Proverb, Persian

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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)