Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Morrison, Jim

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Fuller, Thomas

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

14.

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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Keith

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Billings, Josh

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Epictetus

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

Ball, Lucille

30.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Saying

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Enrico Fermi