Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lao-tzu

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Back, Sudie

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

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.

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

Penn, William

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

'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

12.

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

Starr, Lonny

13.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

18.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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.

24.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

25.

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

Hall, Bishop

26.

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

Moliere

27.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

35.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Stoppard, Tom

39.

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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

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

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

Epictetus

43.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

Socrates

45.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

47.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

48.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

50.

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