Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kempis, Thomas

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Epictetus

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Saying

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Epictetus

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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)

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Confucius

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Proverb, Persian

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Johnson, Samuel