Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Swinnock

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ralph, Blum

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Pickering

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli