Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Benchley, Robert

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)

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Szasz, Thomas

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Billings, Josh

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Pickering

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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

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

36.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Kennedy, John F.

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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.

46.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Mills, Darius Ogden