Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

Charron, Pierre

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

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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 power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Fink, David Harold

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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

28.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Morrison, Jim