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

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

12.

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

Kuehler, Jack

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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 power.

Sir Francis Bacon

19.

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

20.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Richard Feynman

26.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

27.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

33.

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

Mill, John Stuart

34.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

37.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Epictetus

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pickering

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas