Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Richard Feynman

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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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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sophocles

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

Benchley, Robert

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Ralph, Blum

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von