Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Back, Sudie

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Socrates

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-tzu

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Billings, Josh

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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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

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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

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

Robert, Cavett

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.