Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

10.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

11.

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

Manutius

12.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

13.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

14.

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

Haskins, Caryl

15.

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

16.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

18.

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Degas, Edgar

23.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

24.

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

Saying

25.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

26.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

27.

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

Getty, J. Paul

28.

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

Lao-tzu

29.

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

30.

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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

32.

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

Proverb, Persian

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Samuel Johnson

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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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

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

44.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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