Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

- Toffler, Alvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

12.

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

13.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Lao-tzu

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

Saying

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Degas, Edgar

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Moliere

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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