Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

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

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ralph, Blum

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

10.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Smiles, Samuel

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Billings, Josh

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Starr, Lonny

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

31.

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

Epictetus

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Moliere

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

48.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.