Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Penn, William

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

10.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

11.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

12.

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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

15.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Back, Sudie

18.

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

Robert, Cavett

19.

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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Epictetus

26.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

27.

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''

28.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

30.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

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

Kuehler, Jack

35.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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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

40.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

41.

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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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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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

44.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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

Lao-tzu

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

Socrates

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.