Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

'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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

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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 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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Miller, Keith

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.