Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Epictetus

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Socrates

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Miller, Keith

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.