Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Traherne, Thomas

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Confucius

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Lao-tzu

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von