Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Einstein, Albert

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Cowper, William

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

12.

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

13.

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

Saying

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

23.

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

24.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

26.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

29.

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

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

32.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

33.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Sophocles

35.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

36.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

37.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

38.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

40.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

41.

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

Haskins, Caryl

42.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

47.

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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

50.

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