Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

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.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Morrison, Jim

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

22.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Confucius

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saying

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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