Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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.

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.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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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.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

12.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Starr, Lonny

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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 the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

31.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lao-tzu

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

41.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.