Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Starr, Lonny

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Confucius

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Back, Sudie

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

16.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Churchill, Winston

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Einstein, Albert