Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

- Starr, Lonny

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

10.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

11.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Addison, Joseph

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Fink, David Harold

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

28.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

33.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

39.

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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.