Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

11.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bergethon, R. K.

14.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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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.

27.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

28.

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

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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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Richard Feynman

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

39.

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

Moliere

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

Saying

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Confucius

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David