Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

10.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

12.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

13.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Bernard, Claude

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Schopenhauer, Arthur

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

23.

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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

33.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Epictetus

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

43.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Socrates

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie