Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Haskins, Caryl

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ralph, Blum

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Confucius