Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- Van Horne, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Saying

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Starr, Lonny

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

13.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

16.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

18.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

19.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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

22.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

24.

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

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

Sophocles

27.

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

Socrates

28.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

29.

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

30.

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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

32.

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 that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

34.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Stevens, Ray

36.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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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

45.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

46.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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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

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

49.

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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson