Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Robert, Cavett

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.