Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

18.

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

Saying

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

20.

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

21.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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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.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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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

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

Confucius

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

Comte, Auguste

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Moliere

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar