Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Pickering

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Saying

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Moliere

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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.