Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Stevens, Ray

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Benjamin Disraeli

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Saying

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Van Horne, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Margaret Fuller

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Cowper, William

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Epictetus

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence