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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Socrates

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

11.

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

12.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

14.

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

Proverb, Persian

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Bible

17.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

18.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

19.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

20.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

25.

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

Socrates

26.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

27.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

28.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

30.

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

Szasz, Thomas

31.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

33.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

34.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

44.

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

48.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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