Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Addison, Joseph

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Lao-tzu

11.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

12.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

14.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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''

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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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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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bible

33.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Lao-Tzu

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Saying

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Bernard, Claude