Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Mansfield, Katherine

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fischer, Martin H.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Billings, Josh

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Swinnock

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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

38.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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.