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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

11.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

12.

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

Saying

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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

17.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Ralph, Blum

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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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Bible

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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