Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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)

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

Epictetus

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Sophocles

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Billings, Josh

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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