Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

- Proverb, Native American

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Miller, Keith

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitney, W. R.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ralph, Blum

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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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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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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)

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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