Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lao-tzu

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Johnson, Samuel

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Confucius

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

Moliere

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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