Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Man knows more than he understands.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

Saying

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

10.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smiles, Samuel

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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

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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Shakespeare, William

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Persian

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Robert, Cavett

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Starr, Lonny

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.