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

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Miller, Keith

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

Fuller, Thomas

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Pickering

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Persian

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Lao-tzu

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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

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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 power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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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