Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

- Comte, Auguste

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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)

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

Epictetus

10.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

16.

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

Stevens, Ray

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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 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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

24.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

30.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

33.

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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Saying

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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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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Markham, Beryl

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.