Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

49.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen