Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Bernard, Claude

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Swinnock

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Pickering