Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Richard Feynman

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Penn, William

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

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

Moliere

10.

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

Cowper, 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

12.

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

Hall, Bishop

13.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Lao-tzu

16.

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

Bible

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

18.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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

20.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

22.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

31.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

32.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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.

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

49.

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

50.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb