Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Addison, Joseph

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

14.

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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

18.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bright, Grant M.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Socrates

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.