Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Epictetus

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

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert