Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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.

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

Moliere

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Richard Feynman

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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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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

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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

Epictetus

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Getty, J. Paul