Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Addison, Joseph

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

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

Robert, Cavett

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Socrates

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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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)

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

Mill, John Stuart

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Richard Feynman