Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

17.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bible

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

28.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Whitney, W. R.