Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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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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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Margaret Fuller

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

33.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Pickering

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

Moliere

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

Saying

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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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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

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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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence