Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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''

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Mueller, Robert K.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Richard Feynman

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Back, Sudie

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

Saying

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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 common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.