Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

- Fink, David Harold

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Socrates

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Benchley, Robert

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.

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

Back, Sudie

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Everett, Douglas

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Stoppard, Tom

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin