Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Richard Feynman

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Van Horne, William

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Lao-Tzu