Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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''

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

Billings, Josh

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Robert, Cavett

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

10.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

17.

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

Margaret Fuller

18.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

19.

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.

20.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

21.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

22.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

24.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

25.

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

26.

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

Fink, David Harold

27.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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.

31.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

32.

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

Swinnock

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

36.

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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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

45.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

49.

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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William