Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mueller, Robert K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pickering

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stoppard, Tom

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Sophocles

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

14.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

32.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-tzu

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

41.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

43.

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

Richard Feynman

44.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moliere

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John