Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Epictetus

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

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.

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

Proverb, Persian

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Van Horne, William

11.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

12.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Moliere

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.