Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bright, Grant M.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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.

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

13.

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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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

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

Back, Sudie

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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