Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another

- Proverb, Kenyan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lao-Tzu

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Epictetus

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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

30.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Szasz, Thomas

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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 wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart