Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

- Pickering

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Lao-tzu

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Richard Feynman

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

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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

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Swinnock

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Socrates

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.