Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Stevens, Ray

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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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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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.

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

Pickering

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert