Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Morrison, Jim

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Traherne, Thomas

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-tzu

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

34.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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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