Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Brown, Francis Yeats

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Proverb, Persian

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Epictetus

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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

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Epictetus

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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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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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