Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cowper, William

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

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Milton, John

10.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

11.

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

Hall, Bishop

12.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Confucius

16.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

20.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

21.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

22.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Starr, Lonny

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Lao-Tzu

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

46.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, 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.