Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mills, Darius Ogden

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Epictetus

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Margaret Fuller

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Moliere

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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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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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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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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