Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bernard, Claude

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Lao-tzu

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

Moliere