Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Cowper, William

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

Socrates

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Penn, William

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lao-tzu

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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

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Swinnock

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.