Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Billings, Josh

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Lao-tzu

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

11.

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.

12.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Penn, William

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

Epictetus

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

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

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

29.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

38.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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 is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Comte, Auguste

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Richard Feynman