Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pickering

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Van Horne, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

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