Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Van Horne, William

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

31.

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

Epictetus

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Socrates

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Fuller

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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

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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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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