Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Socrates

16.

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

Epictetus

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

Denham, Sir John

18.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

20.

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

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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.

22.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

30.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

31.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

44.

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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

46.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Moliere

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

Samuel Johnson