Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kuehler, Jack

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Every animal knows more than you do.