Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Fuller, Thomas

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hall, Bishop

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Saying

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Starr, Lonny

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