Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

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

Back, Sudie

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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 proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

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

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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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Swinnock

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Keith

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.