Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lao-Tzu

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Richard Feynman

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Mill, John Stuart

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.