Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Samuel Johnson

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Miller, Keith

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Cowper, William

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