Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Margaret Fuller

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bernard, Claude

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Whitney, W. R.

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

20.

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.

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Miller, Keith

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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.

28.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Stevens, Ray

38.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Saying

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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 man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

46.

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

Proverb, Persian

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

48.

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

49.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine