Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All knowledge is ambiguous.

- Habgood, J. S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Getty, J. Paul

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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

11.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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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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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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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

16.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

18.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

19.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

20.

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

Hall, Bishop

21.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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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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''

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

29.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

30.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

34.

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

Caine, Mark

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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 is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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 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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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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott