Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Back, Sudie

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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 is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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.

33.

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

Proverb, Persian

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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