Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

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

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''

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

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epictetus

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Epictetus

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

Moliere

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Mills, Darius Ogden