Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

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

Margaret Fuller

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.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Degas, Edgar

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Miller, Keith

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

Churchill, Winston

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pickering

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Billings, Josh

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Back, Sudie

41.

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Stoppard, Tom

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich