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Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Denham, Sir John

10.

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

11.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

12.

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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

19.

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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

26.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

28.

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

Everett, Douglas

29.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

30.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

31.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

32.

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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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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Einstein, Albert

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Confucius

46.

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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

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

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu