Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lao-tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bible

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

10.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

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

12.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

13.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

28.

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

Van Horne, William

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Miller, Henry

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

41.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

44.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Confucius

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Socrates

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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