Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robert, Cavett

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Ball, Lucille

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

10.

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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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Saying

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

25.

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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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

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

29.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

33.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

35.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Fink, David Harold

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

39.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

40.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Van Horne, William

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.