Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

- Catton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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''

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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

Robbins, Anthony

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

10.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

11.

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

12.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

13.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

18.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

19.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

20.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

21.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

25.

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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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

29.

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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

32.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

33.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

38.

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 seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

41.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

42.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl