Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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 can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Confucius

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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Epictetus

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

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Szasz, Thomas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.