Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

- Roger, Rutherford D.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

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

Billings, Josh

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Enrico Fermi

12.

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

Benchley, Robert

13.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Denham, Sir John

15.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

18.

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

Morrison, Jim

19.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

21.

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

Margaret Fuller

22.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

24.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

25.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

26.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Confucius

30.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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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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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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

37.

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

38.

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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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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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

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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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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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He who does not know one thing knows another