Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Addison, Joseph

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Van Horne, William

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Pickering

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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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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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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

42.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cowper, William