Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Margaret Fuller

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Robbins, Anthony

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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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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'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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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

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

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

Socrates