Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Confucius

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Confucius

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Epictetus

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

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

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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

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts