Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Starr, Lonny

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Manutius

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

Starr, Lonny

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Proverb, Persian

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

12.

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

Haskins, Caryl

13.

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

Stoppard, Tom

14.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

15.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

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

Richard Feynman

21.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Samuel Johnson

26.

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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

29.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

31.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

33.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

34.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

35.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

36.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

37.

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

39.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

42.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

43.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

44.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Smiles, Sydney

46.

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

47.

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

Kuehler, Jack

48.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

49.

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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.