Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What we do not understand we do not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Aldus Manutius

  Country, Matter, Aliens

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• Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

  James Mackintosh

  Self Knowledge

  James Mackintosh (1791). “Vindiciae Gallicae”, p.199

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• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Intelligence

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• Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Knowing, Mindfulness

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

  C.P. Snow

  Responsibility, Science, People

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• What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

  Confucius

  Knows

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

  The Weeknd

  Confucianism, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Philosopher

  Song: Montreal, 2011

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Too Much, Enough, Nobody Knows

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• Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Business, Men

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

  Ivan Panin

  Knows

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• There's no such thing as knowledge management;
  there are only knowledgeable people.
  Information only becomes knowledge
  in the hands of someone
  who knows what to do with it.

  Peter Drucker

  Hands, People, Information

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• Whatever we know without inference is mental.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inference, Knows

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.240, Routledge

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• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  True Friend, Betrayed, Shouting

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

  Laozi

  Laughter, Average, Laughing

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Wise, Power

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

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• To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Use

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Respect, Character

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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