Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Caine, Mark

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Starr, Lonny

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Milton, John

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Shakespeare, William

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Richard Feynman

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

Kuehler, Jack

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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