Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Richard Feynman

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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'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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

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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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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Pickering

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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