Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Stevens, Ray

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

11.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

12.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Socrates

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

Everett, Douglas

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Lao-tzu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Epictetus

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

29.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

30.

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

Proverb, Persian

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Moliere

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

37.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.