Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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

11.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Denham, Sir John

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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

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bible

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

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

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb