Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Fink, David Harold

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

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

Lao-tzu

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Pickering

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mills, Darius Ogden