Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Billings, Josh

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Miller, Keith

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Sophocles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.