Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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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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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

34.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Pickering

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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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 one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.