Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Moliere

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''