Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Moliere

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Traherne, Thomas

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Saying

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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.

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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''

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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

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Socrates

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Johnson, Samuel