Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Epictetus

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Socrates

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Enrico Fermi

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Benchley, Robert

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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