Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Milton, John

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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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish