Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lao-tzu

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Billings, Josh

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Richard Feynman

14.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

16.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

22.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

23.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

25.

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

30.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

31.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

32.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

33.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

34.

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

35.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

36.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Socrates

38.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

41.

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

Fink, David Harold

42.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

44.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.