Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Richard Feynman

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

Caine, Mark

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Benchley, Robert

13.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

15.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

17.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Pickering

20.

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

Moliere

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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

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

26.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

29.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

32.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

33.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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.

35.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

50.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo