Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

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

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

24.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cowper, William

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Sophocles

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Billings, Josh