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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

11.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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

18.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Pickering

20.

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

Socrates

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

25.

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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Socrates

30.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

31.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

32.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.