Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

17.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

20.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

21.

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

Richard Feynman

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Moliere

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

25.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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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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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

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

32.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Swinnock

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.