Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

- Toffler, Alvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bernard, Claude

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bible

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Back, Sudie

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

Epictetus

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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

Moliere

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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