Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mill, John Stuart

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

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

Hall, Bishop

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

17.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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''

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Caine, Mark

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

42.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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.