Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Degas, Edgar

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Markham, Beryl

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

12.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sophocles

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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