Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

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)

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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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.

26.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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 treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Moliere

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

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

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar