Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Confucius

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

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

Ball, Lucille

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Ralph, Blum

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

15.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Margaret Fuller

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Socrates

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

Epictetus

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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)

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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