Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

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

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

11.

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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

18.

'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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Saying

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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 the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William