Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lao-tzu

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''

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

Confucius

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Pickering

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.