Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Billings, Josh

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

18.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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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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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Saying

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Socrates

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Epictetus

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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

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

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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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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

49.

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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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.