Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

25.

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

Robert, Cavett

26.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

34.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

35.

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

Miller, Keith

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

37.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

38.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

43.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

45.

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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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato