Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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

Denham, Sir John

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

18.

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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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

22.

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.

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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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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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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.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

36.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bible

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

Addison, Joseph

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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, 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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

45.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

49.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.