Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

- Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Markham, Beryl

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Penn, William

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morrison, Jim

11.

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

Margaret Fuller

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Lao-tzu

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

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epictetus

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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