Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Samuel

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Bible

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

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

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Back, Sudie

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Epictetus

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

Miller, Keith

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish