Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Van Horne, William

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Confucius

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Lao-tzu

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richard Feynman

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Margaret Fuller

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Ralph, Blum

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel