Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Benchley, Robert

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Socrates

11.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

17.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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 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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

27.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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

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

Bernard, Claude

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Kuehler, Jack

39.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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