Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Socrates

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Swinnock

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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''

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Back, Sudie

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Churchill, Winston

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

33.

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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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

Saying

45.

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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Van Horne, William

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David