Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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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

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Miller, Keith

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Back, Sudie

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.