Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

- Proverb, Native American

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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''

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

23.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Saying

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Moliere

41.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

42.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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