Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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.

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

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Proverb, Persian

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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''

31.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Pickering

40.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Socrates

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

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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

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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