Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Johnson, Samuel

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bright, Grant M.

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Denham, Sir John

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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 in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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