Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

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.

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

10.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

11.

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

Kuehler, Jack

12.

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

13.

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

Socrates

15.

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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

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.

18.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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.

26.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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

28.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bible

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

40.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

43.

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

Pickering

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Moliere

49.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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