Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bergethon, R. K.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Saying

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Enrico Fermi

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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.

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Einstein, Albert

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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