Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Degas, Edgar

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Fuller

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

19.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Epictetus

23.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

25.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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.

28.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Socrates

32.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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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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

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Saying

50.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen