Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Smiles, Sydney

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Denham, Sir John

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

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

Saying

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock