Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Denham, Sir John

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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''

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

11.

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.

12.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

15.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Swinnock

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Miller, Keith

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

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

Starr, Lonny

30.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

32.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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

40.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Milton, John

43.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott