Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Epictetus

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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)

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

10.

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

Miller, Keith

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

18.

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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

20.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

21.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

22.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

28.

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

Moliere

29.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

30.

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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

32.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

33.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

34.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Pickering

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Swinnock

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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

44.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

47.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts