Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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''

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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 most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

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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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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.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Morrison, Jim

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Saying

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.