Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Epictetus

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Manutius

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Szasz, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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