Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Epictetus

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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)

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

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Addison, Joseph

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Billings, Josh

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

18.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Socrates

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

30.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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.

35.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Confucius

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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