Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- Van Horne, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Back, Sudie

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Socrates

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epictetus

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

Saying

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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