Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

'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

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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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''

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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, 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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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

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Penn, William

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Back, Sudie

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Lao-tzu

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Socrates