Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Lao-tzu

11.

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

Proverb, Persian

12.

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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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 is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

27.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

28.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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 the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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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

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bierce, Ambrose