Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Traherne, Thomas

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Ralph, Blum

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Pickering

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

40.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

42.

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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand