Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Pickering

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Van Horne, William

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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