Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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''

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

Miller, Henry

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ball, Lucille

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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.