Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Stevens, Ray

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Swinnock

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Back, Sudie

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hall, Bishop

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