Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

- Smiles, Sydney

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Pickering

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

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Back, Sudie

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Cowper, William

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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