Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Billings, Josh

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

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

Bible

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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 one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lao-tzu

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Moliere

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Back, Sudie

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Socrates

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, Spanish