Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Van Horne, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Back, Sudie

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Addison, Joseph

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Fuller, Thomas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bernard, Claude

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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 of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Epictetus

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.