Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lao-tzu

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)

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Saying

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.