Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Starr, Lonny

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Lao-tzu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Bible

10.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

11.

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

Richard Feynman

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

15.

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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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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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.

20.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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