Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Traherne, Thomas

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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 conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Back, Sudie

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Swinnock

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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Fink, David Harold

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Saying

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur