Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Enrico Fermi

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

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

11.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

14.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Addison, Joseph

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Socrates

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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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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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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre