Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

11.

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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

14.

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Bergethon, R. K.

19.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

20.

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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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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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

25.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

29.

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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Van Horne, William

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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

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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.