Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lao-tzu

13.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

14.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

20.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

21.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

23.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

25.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

27.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

34.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

40.

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

Billings, Josh

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

44.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

45.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.