Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

- Lyotard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Lyotard, Jean Francois

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Szasz, Thomas

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

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