Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Van Horne, William

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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)

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

10.

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

Swinnock

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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, 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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

37.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence