Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Robert, Cavett

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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

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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