Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Socrates

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Markham, Beryl

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bernard, Claude

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

39.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von