Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

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

Swinnock

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

Chesterfield, Lord

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

18.

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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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

21.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

39.

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

Bible

40.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ball, Lucille