Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Miller, Keith

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Lao-tzu

15.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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''

17.

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

Pickering

18.

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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

21.

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

Richard Feynman

22.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

25.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Bergethon, R. K.

27.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Bible

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

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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

38.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

44.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.