Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fink, David Harold

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Morrison, Jim

34.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

35.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Addison, Joseph

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith