Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

13.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Miller, Keith

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

27.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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