Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

16.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Socrates

20.

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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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

31.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

35.

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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.