Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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''

11.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

17.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Billings, Josh

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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

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

Socrates

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Socrates

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Szasz, Thomas