Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Fink, David Harold

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Epictetus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Penn, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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