Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bright, Grant M.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Miller, Keith

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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.

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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 not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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