Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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

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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Saying

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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 of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Moliere

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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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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.