Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Markham, Beryl

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

10.

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

Addison, Joseph

11.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Pickering

17.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

24.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Knowledge is power.