Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

- Toffler, Alvin

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

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Caine, Mark

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

10.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Pickering

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

32.

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

33.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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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

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Billings, Josh

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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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 knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Moliere

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