Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Ralph, Blum

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Pickering

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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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Moliere

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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''

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie