Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Bible

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Socrates

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Moliere

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Saying

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Sophocles