Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

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

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

Moliere

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

43.

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

Socrates

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ball, Lucille

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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 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