Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Degas, Edgar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Socrates

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Milton, John

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John