Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Johnson, Samuel

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

10.

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.

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

31.

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

Lao-tzu

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

43.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace