Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kuehler, Jack

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Miller, Keith

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

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Margaret Fuller

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

18.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

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

Swinnock

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Franklin, Benjamin