Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Manutius

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

17.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

18.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

19.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

20.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kuehler, Jack

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

Bible

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

Moliere

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Billings, Josh

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

36.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Horne, William

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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.

43.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

45.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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