Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Richard Feynman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Ralph, Blum

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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''

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lao-Tzu

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Van Horne, William

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Einstein, Albert

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris