Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bright, Grant M.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sophocles

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

Billings, Josh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Traherne, Thomas

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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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

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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