Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Lao-tzu

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Back, Sudie

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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.

39.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Benchley, Robert

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